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Re: CNC Mill or Router?
Check Craigslist as there some mills and a digital read out not to far from you. Also check the Central Valley.
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Can confirm he gets good deals, I hear he bought 3 shopping carts of bowling balls for only $10! |
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I keep hearing on CD that for manual mills, a Bridgeport/clone is THE gold standard. So is there something similar for lathes, CNC lathes, CNC mills, and CNC routers?
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I watch a lot of auction sites for machines and what not. Bowling alley was going out of business and 46+ bowling balls for $36 after fees is a steal. Was thinking we could get a robot billiards league going or something, I have some other plans for some as well. Who knows, maybe it will be useful on a robot mechanism? |
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It will pay to find a way to bring mentors into your team that have experience with machine tools. Perhaps you have sponsors that are machine shops/employ machinists and you could get them to help you evaluate a prospective machine. At a minimum definitely take Devin up on his suggestion to help guide you in the right direction. Used machinery can be super hit or miss. There's a lot of old lathes out there that were made to a much higher standard of quality than new lathes are (that is not the case with mills), but there's also a lot that are going to be worn out pieces of junk, or require a good amount of tinkering by your team to tune them up and keep them in good working order. |
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Thank you all so much for all of the input that you have given. I spoke with the rest of the team members today and we decided that we are definitely going purchase a manual mill with a dro. We have a sponsor that lets us use their laser cuter, so we were originally leaning in this direction anyways.
We do not really see a need for a lathe at this point. To my knowledge, we have never designed a part on a robot that justified the use of a lathe, and we would rather spend the money to buy another control system. |
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We have a Dayton 2lKP9 we got over 6 years ago and never used. It got wired up in the wrong room. We are getting it moved into our lab soon! Is there anything we should buy to prep for it? Is it a decent mill?
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Here's a fun post showing a guy refining his process to make anodized paintball gun triggers - https://discuss.inventables.com/t/al...-anodized/9924 |
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If it is still near-new, I would sell it and look for a Bridgeport. If that's not possible, you could definitely work with it- it just takes longer than the Bridgeport. |
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Since its a piece of crap what should be expect to use it for? |
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